General : Virgin Media New Traffic Management Again

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

Can someone explain to me which one is correct 11250MB in two hours or 6250MB in two hours?

It's 6250MB in a rolling two hour period

[peanut]

I've sussed it, all makes sense now...

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VM had me there for a bit.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

You have to download more than the one hour policy to get to the two hour threshold

Originally Posted by Kabaal

That's slightly better but still doesn't remove the sting of the whole thing, especially at weekends on the upstream.

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Apologies, have just re-read the post and my reply and may explained it wrong.

Ok, just to clarify, the policy is checked every 15 minutes, so unless you manage to download the two hour threshold in 15 minutes, you have to go through the one hour threshold first.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by peanut

I've sussed it, all makes sense now...


VM had me there for a bit.

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I am purposely going to exceed this now to see if it affects my gaming. If it does then i may have to review my options.


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Is this in place now ?

[MovedGoalPosts]

Originally Posted by Sirius

Is this in place now ?

I think I read somewhere that it was being rolled out, possibly by Friday?

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Rob

I think I read somewhere that it was being rolled out, possibly by Friday?

then i need to test it when it roles.

[ileikcaek]

As competing ISP's take major steps forward Virgin Media takes two steps back.

I think I'll leave as soon as I can, 5 months left on this contract. I'm not what I would describe as a heavy downloader (a few hundred gigabytes per month at most) but now I stand much more chance of hitting STM. It's a terrible change from an ever backwards thinking ISP.

[apb27]

being put in place from friday i think, i like the large window during the weekdays for downloads (11pm-4pm next day). but the 5GB cap is ridiculous especially on weekends when its managed for most of the day.

its basically a punch to the gut for streaming video

[Skie]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Mark has answered some questions about the new policy over on the Community Forum http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...1796996#M20315

But one thing I'd highlight is

Nice to see this has finally been acknowledged, but it had 'leaked' out via my vm a long time ago so this seems to be an awful long time for them to create a tool so you can see your usage/stm status.

[Jumping]

This really is a joke, I mean I purchased Bioshock Infinite on steam and that was a 14GB download which is big but games are big these days so that would incur the traffic management big style...the whole bloody point in having a fast connection is so you can download your legally purchased game and get to play it now and then.

Patches for games are also getting bigger and bigger, so say your living in a household with a couple of children gaming, streaming, video chatting, throw in some games/windows updates you will basically be traffic managed all evening and this is just normal day to day usage on a product that your purchased to do these things.

Seriously once FTTC is rolled out where I live its not even a question and having to think about I will change my broadband and most likely will go with SKY and get everything from them just cause its easier and often cheaper to get everything through one provider and I can see a lot of people doing this so Virgin will end up losing people for TV/phone service just because they putting in archaic rules on their broadband, not imho a sound business plan.

Originally Posted by rickymallory

As competing ISP's take major steps forward Virgin Media takes two steps back.

I think I'll leave as soon as I can, 5 months left on this contract. I'm not what I would describe as a heavy downloader (a few hundred gigabytes per month at most) but now I stand much more chance of hitting STM. It's a terrible change from an ever backwards thinking ISP.

This is he problem, times have changed and it seems virginmedia can't change with them. Once a few hundred gig a month was the exception now with Netflix, nowtv etc etc although not the norm I imagine a lot more users get close to a few hundred gig a month.

Although personally I doubt I even get over 100Gb a month.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by Skie

Nice to see this has finally been acknowledged, but it had 'leaked' out via my vm a long time ago so this seems to be an awful long time for them to create a tool so you can see your usage/stm status.

It is dependent on the new traffic system being in place.

[Skie]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

It is dependent on the new traffic system being in place.

Ahar, fair do's.

[HDFootyMan]

So, when are VM going to get Netflix and Lovefilm apps on TiVo?

2 episodes of Castle streamed back-to-back from Lovefilm and I'm capped on 60Mb. If that app was on TiVo, surely it would use TiVo's 10Mb, un-capped (for the moment ) connection and I could stream as much TV as I want.

[MovedGoalPosts]

Originally Posted by HDFootyMan

So, when are VM going to get Netflix and Lovefilm apps on TiVo?

Why would they want to do that when they would argue their TV platform already has all the current, on demand and other stuff needed, rather than your use of a rival on demand streaming service.